Open AccessTen-Four
Author(s) -
Janet Chan
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
surveillance and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1477-7487
DOI - 10.24908/ss.v19i4.15120
Subject(s) - posthuman , appropriation , field (mathematics) , sociology , aesthetics , capitalism , posthumanism , media studies , politics , epistemology , art , philosophy , law , political science , mathematics , pure mathematics
This story is an appropriation/erasure of George Orwell’s 1984, remixing some of its original text with concepts from popular fiction and academic literature, including my published work. These concepts include: lateral surveillance; pandemic policing; data capitalism; predictive policing; and posthuman. The story contributes to the diverse, expanding field of cultural production known as “speculative fiction… a mode of thought-experimenting” (Oziewicz 2017). Rather than trying to predict the future, speculative fiction “unsettles the present” with what-if questions that allow us to “develop alternative social imaginaries and open up new perspectives” and “spaces of debate” (Dunne and Raby 2013: chapters 88, 189, 3).